the flight to explore the costs most in their own right species please technology and please the future are covered. international community and such a no fly zone is in place but here in tripoli we continue to hear reports of civilians injured and killed twenty points here from the capital city in just a few moments before more. also in the program last spring transitional weeks after mass and rest in egypt led to regime change there are signs of disenchantment with the outcome of the revolution as we report plus. police crackdown on and she was terrific demonstrators in brussels with tear gas and water cannon the protesters say western countries shouldn't be imposing cuts at home while spending millions on

the libya campaign. the first images of the workers struggling to stabilize the situation of japan's fukushima power plant the reports of three more been exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. very good evening from moscow if you're just joining us my name's kevin though in this is the r.t. news channel it's nine pm here now in the top story for a fifth night explosions and gunfire have shaken tripoli and other libyan cities as coalition forces conduct more air strikes by the allies debate who will take over command of the operation from the u.s. fighting between gadhafi troops and the opposition is intensifying in the west of the country paula slee has the latest tonight from tripoli nobody noticing more and more is that the main sum for this operation in libya remains in the balance it's

literally hanging in the balance because on the international front we are seeing that coalition forces are now so not a bit green in terms of how to move forward here on the ground the rebel groups themselves to divide. it in terms of how they wanted forward even now here in the capital city of tripoli which is traditionally the stronghold of moammar gadhafi we are hearing the women every reports of some of his former supporters starting to meet in secret now from the coalition is trying to some from the coalition community we know that for six days these airstrikes have been happening overnight and into the early hours of this morning we are being told that they hit military bases around the country but a different story emerging as it always does from the capital city fear we've been told that a number of civilians have been killed and injured one of the towns that the coalition hits according to them was the town of misrata and they insisting that they've managed to skim the government force advancement there but we are hearing conflicting reports some of those reports suggesting that for days now the town has been unable to have access to water still and to city that gadhafi soldiers are

literally going from house to house that they've hit the local hospital here in tripoli in the early hours of this morning and for several hours off the words there were loud explosions it was all said and he aircraft gunfire exploding in the sky so tripoli again coming under intense a fire overnight now the coalition has insisted that the airstrikes have been successful it's a gadhafi is it capability has been completely wiped out he is denying this he says that he has a capability to continue for some time to come if the rebels themselves are now starting to find themselves in an incredibly difficult position they are falling on the international community for some kind of freak him to strike as they try to advance forward the stalemate on the ground is that the rebels do not have the weaponry they do not have the rank and command struction they certainly do not have the experience to take on gadhafi soldiers but those soldiers in turn do not have the numbers so you have this situation on the ground where neither group of able to actually move forward and advance already now for three straight days later leaders

have been meeting to try and decide who can actually move forward we can take control of this operation over libya and today they said to me for a few. dany seems to be no the mental side turkey is one of those countries that is most critical the sticking point is essentially the killing of civilians and teach insisting that they can beat no civilians killed in such an operation but of course the other european powers are saying that he needs to be unable to be there will be some kind of laughable damage that of course they try not to injure civilians the civilians will always get caught in the crossfire to be monitored if ministration is being called red faced because for days now before the american presidency says that america's handing over control of this operation to nato countries and you keep saying that this is going to happen soon the city in terms of the practice seen on the international front it doesn't seem as if it's going to happen anytime soon so the question really at the heart of this debate is whether or not these is strikes can continue who will take control over them and for just how much longer

they can carry on. these war correspondent paula slayer there's also keeping you right up to date on our twitter feed as well indeed she tweeted that there are rumors that bodies left after fighting between you've got the forces and rebels i think presented as evidence of coalition bombing casualties and you get the latest from her. she's got to make it was on the ground from the view. and from all the libyan prime minister to ivan l. of these a senior fellow at the present institute in washington d.c. it's really high there but there are reports that the u.s. is a point more than four thousand sailors and marines now to the area what will happen if we see these troops on the ground eventually you think it's coming to the. well the problem that they have is they've gotten. you know they put up a no fly zone and they're attacking some of libya's ground forces under the stance

of all purpose of saving civilians but of course if that doesn't work then no one they hurried this up and did a very fast and nobody thought ahead as to what would happen if this first round didn't work so i think there is a possibility that this could escalate at some point if not now then you know sort of the same type of episode where years later you have to take him out because he's still there. so when we demonize leaders as the united states is demonize khadafi in saddam hussein then of course it becomes difficult to reach some sort of a settlement with them and then eventually it comes to. taking them out they really don't need to be taken out of course because the united states overdoes it in these things but i think the united states is paced with a problem in there and its coalition partners are faced with a problem that there's going to probably be a military stalemate that's the way it looks like and that was entirely predictable because if nothing else could i be can retreat to the cities that he occupies and

it's going to be very hard to house them with bombing because the. coalition won't want to hit civilians because they're supposed to be saving civilians so i think this is a real problem potentially for escalation yes this sort of this is an off the last question because it is such a puzzle with national debts a whopping fourteen trillion dollars what the u.s. even think of getting involved in the florida to operation the first place you think. well i think obama was probably reluctant to do this and i think the french particularly pushed him to do it but he's got to be stronger in pushing back against the interventionist community here in the united states and also allies who get overly ambitious because the french in the british even the british they don't provide much will quit and so the united states has to provide intelligence tanker aircraft command and control aircraft like a wax it's better that no other country has much of and so. we get he was

dragged into this and i think he just didn't put up enough of a fight and say no we're not going to do and i think the propensity in america is to intervene and i think you're absolutely right there we're going to run into problems with that now we've got a fourteen trillion dollar debt we've got budget deficits over a trillion dollar isa each year and we just can't afford to do these things anymore i don't tell who will listen voices from western officials during this operation how can we be sure that they really know what they're doing that they're focused enough. well i don't think they really do know what they're doing because they've got you know they're saying that they're only trying to do a humanitarian thing by protecting civilians but yet they're targeting. buildings and could our fees. count pounds so. you know and they're also targeting. military forces and who knows what the special forces which are probably

they're doing on the ground so i think certainly they would like to get rid of gadhafi but they don't want to paint themselves into a corner by that ambitious of. objective because of course we're saying that the problem is that they clearly can't do that unless they go in on the ground so it's a muddled the objectives are muddled and i suppose they can make some sort of a case that they save some civilians but the problem is they're going to have to keep that no fly zone and even then if he wants to he can massacre civilians if he really intends to do that so i'm not even sure they can claim that but certainly i don't think gadhafi is going anywhere and briefly if you can what do you think the strengths of support is from the arab league tonight they've expressed concern of the airstrikes over their support of the initial resolution is the arab world you think no longer behind the west anymore. well i think.

in private all these leaders were trumping up a bit to get rid of could of course they have to have some sort of. unity in public and so i think yes they have backed off from this a bit and i think they're trepidations. they're now better but privately they probably want to get rid of gadhafi and they wish the united states would do it for them but but in public i think there's a there's a squeamishness on the part of the arab world and of course the u.s. needs that for legitimacy. is very unpopular in the in the in the arab world and justifiably so his human rights record is awful but that doesn't mean that we should be taking him out or trying to alter the things in a sovereign country. and try to get him to do things through bombing usually that doesn't work very well hasn't worked in the past and probably is not going to work this time i villain flags here inside all the programs and joining us from washington d.c. senior fellow at the independent institute well as the crisis in libya unfolds the

revolutionary phoria in egypt is subsiding meantime and many fear the return of the old guy in question whether the new leaders will bring about the changes they fought for i think of this can authorize the latest from cairo. several weeks have passed since the revolt but it seems the wheels of the old political machine are still turning we start now our usual good edition didn't finish here we need to change there we need we'll be able. to help her ourself. how can do that and would. never use if they used to be an anchor on egypt's national state run radio she claims even though president mubarak has already stepped down the media is still being manipulated the main command is to. me around all those who are proud including hard at work that is up at their feet and making in

late january several hundred thousand people took to the streets of cairo demanding president mubarak step down after several weeks of violence the president. according to the united nations around three hundred people lost their lives during the unrest thousands of others were injured by since then the interim government has held a nationwide referendum. elections to be held before the end of the year but many activists say it's too soon for the newly emerged political movements to gain enough momentum before the vote the elections coming very soon nobody is prepared. and for a lot of the leftists and look for a bit of the political opposition they're thinking that maybe this will be staged as a way to be in power the entity alongside the president for the last three day feeds the national democratic party was the ruling a foodie in the country i mean if you're with state media still under its control

it may gain enough force to come back to power. even though the phrases the recent violence are so obvious life on the city streets seems to be returning to normal here on the square most of the jobs every opened and heavy traffic. has returned but the political situation in the country is still far from healthy sure thousands mobilize to get rid of the authorities but rather be in newly emerging political powers will be able to get their act together in time for your action and what direction it will be take this country and it's still a big question even to the revolutionaries themselves you've got this going on r.t. cairo. just a few minutes of the program new hopes for peace. benjamin netanyahu has asked for russia's help in putting out the metaphorical fires ravaging the north africa and middle east regions of the details coming up. next though police and protesters

have clashed in brussels as european union leaders gather there for a fresh attempt to address the crisis the summit looks set for some tension too over a possible bailout for troubled portugal and the military intervention in libya. has more from the belgian capital. water cannon and pepper spray being used against protesters and police actually and man perry caves to ban protesters getting into the building where i am now this book of building houses the european parliament and the european council really the key to buildings they were allowed about thirty meters away a stone's throw away if you like and that's exactly what happened demonstrators threw stones portals any other sharp objects that came their way to try and hit the building people all furious at the double standards that would be. good you know e.u. cracks down on demonstrators in the heart of europe in the very center of europe

but when libya's leader colonel gadhafi cracks down on the demonstrators there. is the bomb the e.u. leaders were not there for the morning they have arrived in the afternoon and police have actually pushed the protesters away further away now so the e.u. leaders don't see see the protests as they are happening the e.u. is expected to pass an even stricter unprecedented level of powers for itself to allow it to impose austerity measures on countries which it sees as overspending portugal's prime minister has resigned yesterday as a result of his parliament refusing austerity measures which gives you a sense that the public does not support these austerity measures protesters speaking to today told me that their wages are being cut friends and family being laid off and this is not what they signed up to a trade union leaders say that europe social model is something that they want to

keep a generous pension system the good working conditions and they see this as a step back for europe as a whole. bushel our europe correspondent. the situation the middle east is not heading in a positive direction so says to me after meeting the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu here in. not scope rush is hoping to help get the israeli palestinian peace negotiations back on track and talks have been stalled since september when israel refused to extend a freeze on settlement construction in the west bank and his catarina zone over reports now from moscow. the current unrest sweeping the north north african and middle east regions were definitely talking the agenda of talks between benjamin netanyahu the israeli prime minister and the russian president making his visit here in moscow both men agreeing that efforts need to be stepped up in order to control the destabilization and perhaps resume peace negotiations in the middle east conflict between israel and the palestinian national authority agreed to do

just saying that tiptronic changes are currently under way which could lead to severe just terrible eyes ation of the region as a whole and could prove seriously detrimental to the continuation of the middle east peace negotiations then you may get some yahoo in his sense said that while she has a lot of experience in putting out these metaphorical fires there are currently ravaging north africa and the middle east and asked for russia's help in putting those fires out mentioning of course the great existence of terrorist threats that could also prove detrimental to continuing negotiations peace negotiations which have been stalled since september russia is of course a part of the middle east quartet which also strives to mediate and monitor the negotiations between israel and palestine but russia also wants to step up its role as a moderator in these negotiations hoping to jumpstart that of the peace process the

situation of course in israel is ted's not only with the ongoing conflicts in countries such as egypt to tunisia libya now other knowledge and north african states but also with the ongoing threats of terrorism in israel itself yesterday terrorist attack took place in jerusalem the first in a number of years there were casualties on the ground so the situation in israel is a very tense right now which is perhaps why twenty minutes on yahoo is in moscow hoping to get assistance from russia russia of course very willing to step up to the plate and act as a mediator in the negotiations. let me bring up to speed now the latest from japan today where three more workers have been exposed to harmful levels of radiation while connecting electricity at the fukushima nuclear power plant it's raising the question is the people working to make the vicinity safer heroes all victims is out easy go go right now have reports next from japan. after being forced off the side

to focus shima by blood potentially radioactive smoke coming from one of the reactors today the engineers have been able to return to the site they're focusing on reactor number three does the one that was emitting the smoke it's also the other party operates on plutonium which is dangerous in case of any potential contamination those initially a wave of optimism over the weekend as more and more reactors are connected up to electricity it was assumed that once this is done the cooling systems could be restarted a lot of the tension has been focused on the so-called nuclear summer right the workers themselves helping to restore the station to a normal state on the one hand they see by the media as heroes peoples all risking their own lives and doing everything to save japan from nuclear disaster but in other hand they're seen as victims a lot of these people are not professionally trained nuclear workers and as we know from what happened in chernobyl a lot of these workers have a tendency to suffer cancers and other elements for years and years afterwards just

today we received news of a couple could be hospitalized for receiving too high a dose so this is a story that will be developing over the next weeks and even then months and years the radiation fallout from the action keeps spreading we've heard of levels of radioactive being exceeded by more than one hundred times around. this part a fight of the government told people stay stay calm they swept all mineral water off the shelves here other countries are also taking what they're saying up precautionary measures to prevent the radiation spreading abroad several countries that are. inboard but it's a balls of fruit growing around the pushy when we got the first estimates of the damage she might top three hundred billion dollars of those expensive natural calamity in history. of course before the tragedy in japan has been extensively covered in news around the world and in about two hours time marks caused just days

ago to expose a hidden agenda behind some of the coverage in the college report. i brought you a present where you go for a beer. what is that well i'm calling it the c. herbert function in a can it's a little bit about plutonium mixed with uranium because according to this headline max a glowing report on radiation he has apparently rate patient is good for you so this is ann coulter and she wrote on her blog regarding japan the good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer you know this is yellow journalism taken you know radioactive extreme and radioactive journalism you've got murdoch fox news and called their bill o'reilly here who package dangerous lives and put that into the public space hoping to protect industrialist if they represent in their quest to

dismantle the global economy and cause you know genocide. was reported on later but the news no syrian leaders have to look at lift the state of emergency plans in the country since nine hundred sixty three they also promised political reforms and an investigation into this week's some twenty five demonstrators comes after a particularly violent few days of protests the recent uprisings of the biggest the country seen since the one nine hundred seventy s. . a suicide car bombing at a police station in northwestern pakistan has left five dead and at least twenty five others wounded officers say they tried to stop the car for a check with the driver sped through the gates and round the vehicle into a building it's the second attack on police in the area in just two days no one has yet claimed responsibility for the troubled regions home to the taliban influence.

a russian airliner involved in a dramatic crash landing in september has been repaired and taken to the skies once again no artie's time but new cover the emergency situation for us back then says the jets return is nothing short of astonishing it made a sort flight to another city in the region but that front flight proved that it was now fit to fly again it did so with this monkey carriage down but the rest of the plane was functioning normally that airfield was the same airfield that the plane made a crash landing out in september last year many people timekeeper crash landing a miracle the pilot's monist among the plane without any of its navigation systems without its radio systems even without its fuel pumps working in my to glide down plane to a landing it overshot the small airstrip by about two hundred meters in some like woodlands but all of the seventy two passengers and nine crew onboard were safe

nobody was injured in the crash landing since then the planes being there for six months they managed to do repairs on it i'm flying to get. tom dart reporting coming up later this hour a special report on genetically modified food of the disastrous effects potentially that some experts claim it can have on our health that's ahead business with after this quick break.

which bright. sun from steve. keith come. see her and welcome to the program a wave of russian companies that preparing to meet in the london stock market among them real estate developers telecoms and banks in total bay shows will be looking to raise two point seven billion dollars in april and david buick from the partners in london says the russian team looks attractive new office cambio priced everybody looks and see how well russia has done in the course of the last four years and what the opportunities are because you have internal growth which many other countries apart from the far east is. but unfortunately we generally finds

that many of the investment banking so funding for the cost tends to be rather of the price. and i think also you have to offer the investor a guaranteed profit on the first day of trading but he doesn't feel they feel that they'd rather leave. i'll have breaking news this hour the oil exploration deal on assets will between all mages b.p. and ross net have been ruled in bonded by an arbitration called install the cases brought by and they are the russian shareholders of kinkaid b.p. the existing partners of the british oil company russia a are complaining that b.p.'s arrangement with roughneck started at a competitive disadvantage and to get immediate reaction to the news i'm now joined live by priests we fed chief economist from euro said this so we thank you very much for times that is the decision by the arbitration clauses to have binding.

it's binding it's the same story in court is recognized. if you like a speech or in the world of business so parties. will be found by this decision and they will not. look to move ahead and try and result here discussions but it was not ignored as he was. what happens now is the deal. no i don't believe so i think is the least far too important for russia it is a strategic deal for the russian state involving the country's biggest companies and one of the world's biggest oil majors the arctic service be lost go ahead it's to abort so i think what happens now basically is that we get into a more serious face negotiations involving all the parties. to reaching a deal i would expect the states to have considered in these discussions as well because they really need to reach an impasse clearly. point of view they

did not want to go ahead. excluded because they could risk just being sidelined in the old industry and not getting access to any future growth so whatever deal is not done and i do believe a deal will be done. it will have to either involved shareholders or provide them with some other compensation for first with a deal yeah right from your point of view what sort of compensation i could expect . well i think there's a couple of possibilities one is a government could for example for b.p. the opportunity to develop licenses elsewhere in russia that's one possibility second. he may actually be brought into the deal alongside b.p. directly with rust therefore they get that way or alternatively people have circle been speculating that there's a possibility tax we might see some form of ties. between b.p.

. roughnecks are a long term child number of possibilities but i think the bottom line is that. b.p. is now going to have to be involved in some in some capacity or in some other venture to. shareholders to excess. but the company expects the future growth of personnel except crease we've that chief economist from euro saved thank you so much for sharing your views with that. and that's the business news for now back next hour with more and of course can always find all the latest updates at aussie dot com slash business. review the latest in science and technology from the in. the future covered.